The following is too ragged to be a poem and not coherent enough to be an essay. I just want to get some of these thoughts written somewhere. I don't know if I'm depressed, or just thoroughly pissed about the amount of ignorance that seems to be pervading the world at the moment.
Is This the Time of Clouds?
The festering storm has blown itself out.
The threat of hail and high winds
damaged crops and cars
is removed for now.
Politicians and clerics
who know next to nothing
and trust only what they know
are momentarily quiet.
For a moment the skies are clear
and shrill voices are silent
or at least at a low murmur
But it will start again
and the clouds will fill the skies
as politicians rant
and clerics babble on.
Each has a special brand of truth
unique to them alone.
"Small minds are in the Capitol
holding onto power
with no respect for you or me
in this, our darkest hour."
The clouds in their eyes
aren't Nature's clouds
but are the kind that emerge
from hearts and minds of those
who will not see.
The power to destroy is what they crave.
They profess their love of God
while trying to destroy God's nature
and their fellow men.
To pervert everything they touch
is no way to get into heaven
no matter how they try to justify themselves.
It is disgusting to see them citing documents
and books written to meet the needs and understanding
of people who lived centuries ago
as if those words were never meant to grow and change
in the ways that people have grown and
changed.
But they want others to be judged by the old books
and themselves to judged by the new.
So go on you righteous bastards.
Deny Nature at your peril.
De-humanize people out of your ignorance.
Ignore what is inconvenient to see.
Deny the truth.
There will be clouds ....
...and you will find ways to blame others for them
but we will all be denied the Sun.
Jim Morgan--October 27, 2013.
Photo by Sean-Heavy, downloaded from the web. This is one of only a few photos on this site that isn't my own. I have given credit where it is due.